News Ticker: Madonna, Matador Records, Portishead, Prince Madonna will make her new album Hard Candy downloadable to European owners of Vodafone cell phones a week before the album is due to hit stores on April 29th. The Material Girl, who in the past has shunned iTunes, will be the first artist to release their album via cell phone before the actual release date. No plans have been made yet for a similar release in the U.S. Matador Records have posted their Spring ‘08 Intended Play sampler for free download. The sampler features cuts from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Cat Power, the New Pornographers and more. Check out the video for Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” the first single from the band’s upcoming and long-awaited third album Third. The video is the band’s first in nine years. The LA Times revealed, and then retracted, a report that Prince will perform at this year’s Coachella festival during the April 25th weekend. Festival organizers said those reports were “absolutely not true.”
|
Published: 2008-03-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup, Madonna
|
|
Mick Jagger Releases Rarities, Miles Davis Box Set on the Way, Bruce Springsteen Guests on Patti Scialfa’s LP After finally exhausting every possible permutation of greatest hits packages for The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger will unfurl The Very Best of Mick Jagger, a collection of his best solo work, on October 2. The set will feature three unreleased songs, among them “Too Many Cooks,” which was produced by John Lennon, and two covers including his duet with David Bowie on “Dancing in the Street.” Portishead has tapped into the instigating powers of MySpace to attack Mark Ronson, accusing the producer of turning “decent songs into funky supermarket muzak.” They might have a point. Listen to The Cult’s new single “Dirty Little Rock Star” from their forthcoming album Born Into This, the band’s first album since 2001. The complete sessions from Miles Davis’ On the Corner album will be released in a six-disc box set. Bruce Springsteen and various other E Streeters will guest on the Boss’s wife Patti Scialfa’s upcoming third solo album. Photo: Greenway/Getty
|
Published: 2007-08-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
|
|
News Ticker: Aerosmith/Guitar Hero, Usher, R.Kelly, Portishead Aerosmith will get their own installment of the Guitar Hero franchise in June. The pairing marks the first time the series has dedicated an entire game to one band, and also marks the first time a video game has been built around Aerosmith since 1994 arcade-shooter Revolution X. After Usher expressed confusion about why unmastered versions of songs from his new album kept leaking onto the internet, one of the album’s producers, Polow Da Don, admitted to spreading the tracks. The reason why R. Kelly’s publicist quit representing the artist: Kelly “crossed the line with my daughter,” says George Daniels, the publicist’s husband. Thankfully for Kelly, the daughter was twenty-one at the time. Portishead’s new album Third, their first album since 1998’s live PNYC, now has a tracklist and a release date: April 28th.
|
Published: 2008-02-15
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
|
|
Privacy PolicyTerms of UseContact Us